Rantings from the bonfire
Who's idea was this to give me an interest in computers?? WHO????
I need to have a long talk with my real parents about this one.. I could've been a bean farmer! Less stress, more gas!
THURSDAY:
Serious über-coolness to see cerberus777 return to chronosdc, or actually Club Five (for them it was "The Roxy"), for the first time in several years, and get to find out about the infamous Fire Escape (how many of you know about that one?!)
Twas great to finally see exquisitetrash finally out and about, along with Chance, dharmata101 and jesshiva.. violinpadraic was also about as well, and 2501 is mixing louder and louder each night, eventually, we'll all grow deaf and will have to feel the vibrations on the floor for the beat.. it was a fun night but for the first time cerberus777 outlasted me (this must change at once)..
FRIDAY:
I got my computer!!! Yes! Now I can do, uh, whatever it is I am supposed to do.. actually, wrote a few Java database connector beans and that was it so far
Went to hang out with my friend Marc in DC but had a very cool chance to talk to Wes on the phone before I went into DC.. and you know what? There are no convenient cheap eat places in most of DC! Like you didn't know that by now
SATURDAY:
I got up at 8:30, then at 12:30, then 2:30, then blissfully at 5:00, fixed myself some spiced turkey and rice with scrambled eggs (carb central!), then went to pick up another monitor from oldsmobile_mike and clear_23.
Turns out that in the end I was able to finally FINALLY be able to fix the 'puter issues, all I had to do was to
Go into Safe Mode and log in as Administrator (they left that user there w/o password!)
Create a new user with admin privileges
Restart computer and go into "Enable VGA Mode" as my new user on the laptop and allow XP to readjust my monitor settings
Logged out and logged in as normal mode, and all is well!!
That allowed me for the Great Adventure [thus far] of 2007: Creating a Development Server Platform. I haven't had a Dev Server of my own in nearly 7 years!! This was due to the ancient PC being incapable of the memory load for me to have Apache + PHP + MySQL on it. So now I was able to install..
..nothing, because I didn't create the new user yet.. I was late for dcmidnight.
Off I go and to hang with the cool freaks of the night. Wes was there (some those_who_mourn representation is always a good thing), Ken, kat928, Adrian, slyx and his fashions, Corrin, DJ London spinning some cool tuneage while dj_vlad was our special Schadey guest DJ, Chris my favorite bus driver was his usual fun self and introduced me to Sue, some strange Japanese flick made me creepy-crawly all night long, and I won a Delica CD (whoever they are).. dharmata101 and jesshiva blessed us with some new Dharmata101 to spin; the song was utterly fantastic!! I also got to see scarydavedc, demonfafa and djsolaries
But the coolest moment of the entire night was that I got to talk to this guy Mike for nearly an hour about everything from those_who_mourn to how we as freakfolk accept our own kind, when it really comes down to it in the end, what a great guy and what a fantastic convo!
..oh and then I went home and installed Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0 and MySQL 4.1.22.. and went mad trying to install Tcl 8.4 on top of all of that
SUNDAY:
I had about 5 hours of sleep, groggy but determined to complete the installations, which thank GOD I did, yes!!! I have a development server platform for the first time in 7 years, what a fantastic blessing!
Even if I found out I couldn't mirror it with the Välsignalandet live setup..
I went to church to hear some cool message-ness and hang with cerberus777, urgote and Sarah, Amy, Wes and Genevieve, normal_dan, David and Marian.. we went to Silver Diner later on and were blessed to hang with blacklacewings who came with her cousin (but was she blessed by our weirdness? Time will tell hehe)
And I'm home, just finished installing one of my web apps, after discovering some of PHP 5.2.0's interesting new, uh, features.. *sigh*
It's good to be [relatively] normal again
Phil
I need to have a long talk with my real parents about this one.. I could've been a bean farmer! Less stress, more gas!
THURSDAY:
Serious über-coolness to see cerberus777 return to chronosdc, or actually Club Five (for them it was "The Roxy"), for the first time in several years, and get to find out about the infamous Fire Escape (how many of you know about that one?!)
Twas great to finally see exquisitetrash finally out and about, along with Chance, dharmata101 and jesshiva.. violinpadraic was also about as well, and 2501 is mixing louder and louder each night, eventually, we'll all grow deaf and will have to feel the vibrations on the floor for the beat.. it was a fun night but for the first time cerberus777 outlasted me (this must change at once)..
FRIDAY:
I got my computer!!! Yes! Now I can do, uh, whatever it is I am supposed to do.. actually, wrote a few Java database connector beans and that was it so far
Went to hang out with my friend Marc in DC but had a very cool chance to talk to Wes on the phone before I went into DC.. and you know what? There are no convenient cheap eat places in most of DC! Like you didn't know that by now
SATURDAY:
I got up at 8:30, then at 12:30, then 2:30, then blissfully at 5:00, fixed myself some spiced turkey and rice with scrambled eggs (carb central!), then went to pick up another monitor from oldsmobile_mike and clear_23.
Turns out that in the end I was able to finally FINALLY be able to fix the 'puter issues, all I had to do was to
That allowed me for the Great Adventure [thus far] of 2007: Creating a Development Server Platform. I haven't had a Dev Server of my own in nearly 7 years!! This was due to the ancient PC being incapable of the memory load for me to have Apache + PHP + MySQL on it. So now I was able to install..
..nothing, because I didn't create the new user yet.. I was late for dcmidnight.
Off I go and to hang with the cool freaks of the night. Wes was there (some those_who_mourn representation is always a good thing), Ken, kat928, Adrian, slyx and his fashions, Corrin, DJ London spinning some cool tuneage while dj_vlad was our special Schadey guest DJ, Chris my favorite bus driver was his usual fun self and introduced me to Sue, some strange Japanese flick made me creepy-crawly all night long, and I won a Delica CD (whoever they are).. dharmata101 and jesshiva blessed us with some new Dharmata101 to spin; the song was utterly fantastic!! I also got to see scarydavedc, demonfafa and djsolaries
But the coolest moment of the entire night was that I got to talk to this guy Mike for nearly an hour about everything from those_who_mourn to how we as freakfolk accept our own kind, when it really comes down to it in the end, what a great guy and what a fantastic convo!
..oh and then I went home and installed Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0 and MySQL 4.1.22.. and went mad trying to install Tcl 8.4 on top of all of that
SUNDAY:
I had about 5 hours of sleep, groggy but determined to complete the installations, which thank GOD I did, yes!!! I have a development server platform for the first time in 7 years, what a fantastic blessing!
Even if I found out I couldn't mirror it with the Välsignalandet live setup..
I went to church to hear some cool message-ness and hang with cerberus777, urgote and Sarah, Amy, Wes and Genevieve, normal_dan, David and Marian.. we went to Silver Diner later on and were blessed to hang with blacklacewings who came with her cousin (but was she blessed by our weirdness? Time will tell hehe)
And I'm home, just finished installing one of my web apps, after discovering some of PHP 5.2.0's interesting new, uh, features.. *sigh*
It's good to be [relatively] normal again
Phil